You're really kinda in the dark.
The fact is people without healthcare insurance just go to the MOST EXPENSIVE place for treatment "THE EMERGENCY ROOM" and by law THEY MUST BE TREATED.
Now who do ya suppose pays for that in their higher insurance premiums??? That's right, us, everyone that has health insurance.
The point is that healthcare (doctors-hospitals & medication) is one of those things that is basically "PRICE FIXED" as it is. It all goes up & up together as there is no real competition to push patient costs down... instead everybody basically just raises prices together.
And for the patient it's not like if he or she can't afford Macys they can just stroll on over to Kohls or Kmart.
The idea is to have a system that gives everybody very similar care to what they have now but through things like efficiency upgrades and nationally negotiated drug prices as well as some Federal funding everyone can be in the system taking some burden off employers and avoiding the yearly double digit inflation skyrocketing premiums that has been going on in the industry for years.
It's just a matter of saying... WE CAN DO BETTER!
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